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“Bishops can’t tell politicians what to do, but Catholic voters can!”

Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia

January 14, 2014

Your right to actively oppose the injustice of abortion is in grave jeopardy.

To protect and preserve it, you must take immediate action:

Click here and COMPLETE the “National Survey of American Voters.”

And CLICK HERE to make a contribution to Priests for Life’s important “Campaign to Mobilize TEN MILLION Americans to VOTE in 2014.”

Both actions are critical if you and I are to protect our right to speak out on behalf of the youngest members of our human family and fight for their God-given right to life.

That’s because those who currently hold the reins of power in our government are decidedly pro-abortion!

If we are to have any chance of ending America’s abortion holocaust and protecting our First Amendment right to freedom of religion and freedom of speech …

… we must have the wisdom to elect public servants who know and respect the Constitution.

But even more importantly, we need public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public.

Those who can’t tell the difference don’t belong in public office!

And that’s the message Priests for Life will be repeating from now until Election Day 2014.

Voting is both a right and a duty… and our Church teaches us that it’s one of the most important ways and one of the greatest opportunities to advance the culture of life!

This November the entire House of Representatives and a third of the US Senate – as well as governors and state legislators across the nation … and countless other public officials – will be asking for the votes of Americans, including Catholic Americans.

Rest assured Priests for Life is going all out to fire up American citizens to vote pro-life in 2014.

But we need you to CLICK HERE and make as large a donation to Priests for Life as you can so that we can carry out all that we have planned for the critical 2014 mid-term elections.

Your dollars will help Priests for Life:

1) Launch the “Campaign to Mobilize TEN MILLION American voters in 2014.”  This massive, nationwide, grassroots effort is designed with one purpose in mind: To get pro-life Americans out of their homes and into the voting booth on Tuesday, November 4, 2014!

2) As part of that Campaign, Priests for Life is conducting a nationwide “National Survey of American Voters” that will show candidates that God’s People actively and enthusiastically support the cause of life.

3) Finally, the Priests for Life staff is putting the finishing touches on our “2014 Political Responsibility Action Plan” which will include:

• A massive voter education effort all across the country
• Nationwide voter registration drives
• The distribution of non-partisan “Voter Guides”
• Publishing a special “Voting With a Clear Conscience” booklet
• Maintaining the “PoliticalResponsibility.com” website
• Giving wide distribution to key Church documents on voting; especially the US Bishops’ Living the Gospel of Life
  And come November 2014, conduct “Get Out the Vote” drives

If Priests for Life is able to carry out all of our plans, then I’m confident that our nation will take a major step forward to protecting the unborn as a result of the 2014 elections!

You have a vital role to play in this work.

First …

Click here and make your voice heard through your answers on the “National Survey of American Voters.”

It’s important you do this because a majority of the members of the mainstream news media have a pro-abortion bias.  And because they do, they want to represent our pro-life position as one that is unpopular with the public and a liability to the candidates.  They routinely twist facts and take quotes out of the context in order to portray our pro-life position in the worst light possible.

All this in an unbridled effort to achieve two objectives:

•To impose silence on anyone who wants to speak out against the injustice of abortion.

•To intimidate pro-life men and women from even running for office.

Your Survey answers are needed to show that it’s okay to be PROUDLY PRO-LIFE!  People do not have to run from their pro-life convictions when they run for office.

But in order to do that and counter the pro-abortion drumbeat coming out of most of the major news media outlets, I need your voice.

And that’s exactly what your “National Survey of American Voters” will give me.

Once I have your Survey answers I will tally them with all the others I receive and spread the news far and wide that, just as America is pro-life, so are America’s voters!

Which brings me to the second action I need you to take.

Please CLICK HERE and make as large a donation to Priests for Life as you can so that we can carry out our critical “Campaign to Mobilize TEN MILLION American voters in 2014.”

It will cost Priests for Life literally millions of dollars to implement everything we have planned for the historic 2014 mid-term elections … including widespread distribution of our Survey!

But we have no choice.

The People of Life must show up at the polls and make our votes count!

That’s because of what our bishops warned back in 1998:

We get the public officials we deserve.  Their virtue – or lack thereof – is a judgment not only on them, but on us.

That’s a direct quote from their document “Living the Gospel of Life: A Challenge to American Catholics.”  And it’s why Archbishop Chaput made the statement that I quoted for you at the top of this email:

“Bishops can’t tell politicians what to do, but Catholic voters can!”

And if ever Catholic and pro-life voters needed to tell our elected leaders what to do, it’s NOW!

The reason why can be summed up in one word: ObamaCare!

As an individual, Obamacare is a direct threat to your First Amendment rights to freedom of religion and freedom of speech.  That’s because, as I’ve mentioned to you on many occasions, ObamaCare forces you and all people of good will to violate your sincerely held belief about the sanctity of human life and become a direct participant in the killing of our innocent unborn brothers and sisters.

As a nation, ObamaCare is the greatest expansion of abortion since Roe v Wade!

And this in spite of the fact that a significant majority of Americans OPPOSE both ObamaCare and abortion-on-demand!  All the polls show this.

That’s why Priests for Life is actively working to make health care in America ABORTION-FREE!!!

But that won’t happen until American voters elect men and women who respect every citizen’s inalienable RIGHT TO LIFE!

Which is why the 2014 mid-term elections are so important.

The only way we to rid the nation of ObamaCare’s abortion mandates – along with all the other assaults on the innocent child in the womb – is to:

1. Encourage rock-solid pro-life men and women to run for elected office.

2. Get the People of Life actively involved in the election process so that we give our nation leaders – especially in Congress – that will uphold every American citizen’s GOD-GIVEN and FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO LIFE!

That’s what it’s going to take to end America’s abortion holocaust.

Which is why I’ve sent you this email and included you in Priests for Life’s “National Survey of American Voters.”

As I told you, your answers will give public officials and other leaders the assurance they need that the People of Life have their backs.  That they can profess their pro-life convictions without fear and without feeling as though they have to apologize for them.  And that they can boldly remind all Americans that abortion corrupts our entire society … including the economy!

So right now, before you go on to your next email:

Click here and complete your “Survey”.  It will only take you a few minutes.

Then CLICK HERE and help Priests for Life:

1) Send out more “National Survey of American Voters” ballots.  Our goal is TEN MILLION completed Surveys!

2) Carry out our “2014 Political Responsibility Action Plan”:

• A massive voter education effort all across the country
• Nationwide voter registration drives
• The distribution of non-partisan “Voter Guides”
• Publishing a special “Voting With a Clear Conscience” booklet
• Maintaining the “PoliticalResponsibility.com” website
• Giving wide distribution to key Church documents on voting; especially the US Bishops’ Living the Gospel of Life
• And come November 2014, conduct “Get Out the Vote” drives

The cost to carry out these two major projects will run well into the millions of dollars.

But as you know from my prior letters, Priests for Life doesn’t have nearly that much money right now.

And we never will unless you choose to CLICK HERE right now and help fund Priests for Life’s “Campaign to Mobilize TEN MILLION Americans to VOTE in 2014.”

I say that because you are one of Priests for Life’s most loyal and most dedicated partners.

If I can’t convince you to get behind this massive nationwide effort to give America political leaders who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public, then it’s unlikely that I’ll be able to convince people who don’t know me to do so.

In pressing you as I am to help, let me assure you that the dollars you give to Priests for Life will be among the most effective dollars you will invest in the 2014 elections.

But don’t take my word for that.  Here’s what Dr. Deal Hudson – a long-time warrior in the fight to end abortion – says about us:

“Priests for Life has the most effective political impact of any Catholic apostolate in our country.”

At the risk of trumpeting our own horn, Dr. Hudson is right.  So please, right now, while you’re still reading my email:

Click here and complete your “National Survey of American Voters.”

And CLICK HERE to make a contribution that will allow Priests for Life to carry out our “Campaign to Mobilize TEN MILLION Americans to VOTE in 2014.”

Thank you for doing this.

You are a true pro-life champion, to be sure.

And I thank God for having sent you to us and the Priests for Life family.  May He richly bless you for the many sacrifices you make on behalf of His innocent unborn children.

Sincerely,

Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director
Priests for Life

P.S. As you consider how large a contribution to make, keep these two points in mind:

First, in addition to conducting our Survey online, Priests for Life is also mailing Surveys to people all across the country.  It costs Priests for Life about $1 for each Survey we print, mail and tabulate.  That includes the cost to publicize Survey results to news outlets and candidates running for office.  That means that for every $10 you send Priests for Life, we can get TEN PEOPLE to take part in our Survey and let worthy pro-life men and women know that the People of Life have got their backs.

Second, every item in our “Election 2014 Action Plan” is just that … a “planned” event or project.  Whether or not those “planned” events become reality is up to you and your fellow Priests for Life supporters.  That’s because no matter how well-conceived our plans, they cannot come to fruition without your financial support.

For both those reasons I urge you to CLICK HERE and be as generous as you possibly can today … and throughout 2014.  Thank you and may God bless you.

January 13, 2014

Below is my latest column, We Won’t Kill Anybody: Overcoming the Civil Rights Disconnect, but first let me give you some other important updates.

A very busy two-weeks has just begun. Stay tuned to our website, PriestsForLife.org, our FB page, Facebook.com/ProLifePage, and my Twitter account @frfrankpavone for all kinds of updates, press releases, action items and other developments and announcements!

With all the pro-life events taking place in the coming days, I want to provide you, your churches, and your groups with some special prayers for pro-life rallies, gatherings, and marches.  See PriestsForLife.org/Prayers.

On January 20 we celebrate one of the greatest civil rights activists, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. and I will be in Atlanta with Dr Alveda King and her family for the national commemorative service. Alveda is the niece of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. and fulltime Director of African American Outreach for Priests for Life.  I will also preach at Alveda’s Church on Sunday; if you live in the area, please join me at Believer’s Bible Christian Church on Campbellton Rd, SW, Sunday, January 19 at 11a.m.

The March for Life will take place next week and Priests for Life will be involved in many of the great events surrounding the March in Washington, DC.

On Tuesday, January 21,  Bryan Kemper, Janet Morana, Alveda King and I will speak at the March for Life Youth Rally in the Regency Ballroom of the Hyatt Regency hotel, from 2:00p.m. to 5:00p.m. Our Youth Department has organized this event again this year.

Stop by the Priests for Life and Stand True Youth Outreach booth at the March for Life Exhibit Hall. The Exhibit Hall will be located on the lower lobby level of the Hyatt Regency hotel. The hours of operation are 9a.m.-8p.m. on Tuesday, January 21 and during the times of 8-11a.m. and 3-7p.m. on Wednesday, January 22.

On January 22, the morning of the March for Life, join me, Dr Alveda King and our Priest Associates for the 20th Annual National Memorial for the Preborn and Their Mothers and Fathers from 8:30-10:30a.m. at DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, DC.   I will be joined by clergy from across the country and across denominational lines.   There will be a Mass before the event at 7:30a.m. at the same location.   The event is free, no tickets are required and large groups are welcome.  For more information see NationalPrayerService.com.

Immediately following the March for Life on January 22, please stay for the gathering of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign at the steps of the Supreme Court, starting at approximately 2:30p.m.  Come and support these brave women and men who will give their testimonies in public. Even if you can’t be there please listen to the testimonies, pray with the group, and spread the testimonies to others, see SilentNoMore.com.

Men and women who have lost children to abortion and have found healing are invited to share their testimonies as part of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign in both Washington, DC and San Francisco for the West Coast Walk for Life on January 25. See SilentNoMore.com if you are interested!  Janet and Georgette Forney and I will also be part of the West Coast Walk for Life.

Finally, join us for a Novena in Reparation for Roe vs. Wade from January 14-22.  Find the prayer at prayercampaign.org.

Blessings,

Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life

Praise for our Work: Fr. Frank: Just a quick note to thank you for being my Champion for all the wonderful work you do in support of LIFE! Your guidance, teachings, and your being “out there” on the front lines, has been an inspiration to me. Marie

We Won’t Kill Anybody: Overcoming the Civil Rights Disconnect

Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life

Our nation again approaches the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, and I will again be with Dr. King’s family on that day.

Many people understand the connection between the civil rights movement and the pro-life movement thanks to the work of Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. Her father, Rev. A.D. Williams King, was Martin’s brother. She began working with me fulltime at Priests for Life as our Director of African-American Outreach in 2004.

She and I have been together with her family at many events both happy and sad, including the annual observances of the national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, and the 50th anniversary celebration of the “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. On these occasions, we have been privileged to enjoy some of the most soaring oratory of our day, and some of the most articulate speeches about civil rights, justice, equality and freedom that one can ever hear. Time and time again, I have been energized and inspired by these speeches, and moved to recommit myself to the pursuit of justice and equality for every human being.

But therein also comes the pain and a glaring disconnect. The deepest human emotion and commitment to justice is evoked as speaker after speaker decries violence in the streets, senseless shootings, vast numbers of young people in prison, social inequities and economic injustices, and the horrors of war — to mention a few. But what is never mentioned is the violence of abortion, and the need to secure justice and equality for the child in the womb. Alveda and I have both felt the disconnect so intensely at these gatherings that, amidst the loud applause, we sometimes say out loud, “And the children too! Don’t forget the children in the womb!” We were indeed gratified when, on a single occasion (the MLK Holiday observance at Ebenezer in January of 2013), the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, in his keynote address, mentioned the need to protect all life, including the womb.

That is the kind of consistency that then gives credibility to the cry for justice and equality in all the other contexts that are mentioned.

At that recent 50th anniversary celebration, we heard the assertions,  “There are still too many lives taken by violence… I dream of a world that does not hold anyone back…We can’t move ahead while some people are falling behind…We must protect the most fundamental rights we have…” No reference was made to the right to life of the youngest children.

And hence the pro-life movement declares today, “There are indeed too many lives taken by the violence of abortion… We dream of the world that does not hold the unborn back…We can’t move ahead while children in the womb are falling behind…We must protect the most fundamental right we have, the right to life.”

On Christmas of 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. preached the following words: “The next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God…Man is more than …whirling electrons or a wisp of smoke …. Man is a child of God, made in His image, and therefore must be respected as such….And when we truly believe in the sacredness of human personality, we won’t exploit people, we won’t trample over people with the iron feet of oppression, we won’t kill anybody.”

Indeed, we won’t kill anybody, including the children in the womb.

Read and listen to this column online at priestsforlife.org/columns/4831-we-wont-kill-anybody-overcoming-the-civil-rights-disconnect

Comments on this column? Go to Askfrfrank.com

Fr. Frank’s columns are podcast. See Priestsforlife.org/podcast

Remember to support our work at Priestsforlife.org/donate

Upcoming Special Appearances in the Media

Fr. Frank will be on with Teresa Tomeo on January 15 at 8:35a.m.  Call-in to the live show with questions at 877-573-7825. For more information and to listen to the live show on the internet, go to avemariaradio.net/hosts/teresa-tomeo

Bryan Kemper will be on with Teresa Tomeo on January 20 at 9:15a.m.  Call-in to the live show with questions at 877-573-7825. For more information and to listen to the live show on the internet, go to avemariaradio.net/hosts/teresa-tomeo

On January 21, Dr. Alveda King will be on In The Market with Janet Parshall from 6:30 – 7:00p.m. ET. Listen online at moodyradio.org/inthemarketwithjanetparshall

On January 23, Janet Morana will talk about “Recall Abortion” with Tim Wildmon and Ray Pritchard on American Family Radio. The interview begins at 11:30a.m. Listen live at afr.net.

On Thursday, January 30, Bryan Kemper of Priests for Life Stand True Youth Outreach will be on EWTN’s Life on the Rock at 10:00p.m. ET.

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Seeing is believing: ‘forced confrontation’ and the Holocaust

Seeing is believing, the old adage goes. Often the only thing capable of denting humanity’s monumental ability to bunker down in a state of denial is indisputable, visual evidence. When cruel things take place on a massive and institutionalized scale behind closed doors and out of sight in societies clinging to the tattered mantle of “civilized,” only jarring confrontation, history tells us, can shatter the delusions we cling to. If the ear won’t listen, tell it to the eye.

That was the topic of a Slate article that came out some time ago, featuring a photo of German prisoners of war watching footage of concentration camps. “As part of the Allied policy of postwar denazification,” Rebecca Onion writes, “’forced confrontation’ brought Germans face-to-face with the worst works of the Third Reich. Confrontation took multiple forms, as American and British military officials adapted their tactics based on local conditions.” These “forced confrontations included forcing Germans to watch video footage of concentration camps, marching townspeople past the charred corpses of their former neighbors, and posting photos of the atrocities in public places. Imagery, the evidence of what had actually been done to a brutally dehumanized and coldly executed group of human beings, was central in re-educating a population that had been “educated” to think that Jews, and many others, were not fully human.

The Allies were careful to show the Germans that the destruction of these millions of lives was a collective responsibility, something that each member of the society conducting the killings was partially responsible for. In Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, Harold Marcuse notes that huge placards showing piles of charred corpses were hung up “in cities, towns, and Military Offices everywhere” with titles such as “YOU ARE GUILTY OF THIS.” As many historical works have since proven (Daniel Goldhagen’s Hitler’s Willing Executioners being one of the most extensive and thorough), they were—although reactions among recipients of this message varied widely.

Click “like” if you are PRO-LIFE! 

To come face to face with such horrors, to see the careless heaps of shattered lives and broken people, was too much for many to bear. Even a veteran soldier like General Dwight Eisenhower struggled to comprehend what had happened.

“I have never felt able to describe my emotional reaction when I first came face to face with indisputable evidence of Nazi brutality and ruthless disregard of every shred of decency,” he wrote, “…I visited every nook and cranny of the camp because I felt it my duty to be in a position from then on to testify at first hand about these things in case there ever grew up at home the belief or assumption that the stories of Nazi brutality were just propaganda.”

Read More: 

http://www.lifesitenews.com/blog/seeing-is-believing-forced-confrontation-and-the-holocaust

Fmr. spokeswoman for pro-abortion foundation now works for…the Girl Scouts

January 10, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The woman who now handles the Girl Scouts’ communications used to have another employer: an abortion lobby think tank founded by Gloria Steinem.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Kelly Parisi has served as vice president of communications at the Girl Scouts of the USA since last July. But her last job, before her two-month gap in employment, was as vice president of marketing and communications for the Ms. Foundation for Women. The foundation – which Steinem founded in 1973 – lists “Reproductive Rights and Health” (which includes support for taxpayer-funded abortion) first on its list of issues.

 

Parisi, who has a minor in women’s studies, said she was thrilled to work at the foundation, because she was “able to channel my outrage at women’s inequality and gender injustice into action every day.“

“The last two years have generated record numbers of restrictions on reproductive rights across the country,” shesaid. “Women are constantly under attack.”

At the Ms. Foundation, Parisi served on a five-member “executive team” that guided policy. A report she contributed to last year called for the “repeal [of] state and federal legislative barriers to abortion access,” granting military women access to abortion, implementing the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare), expanding “family planning” funding, and teaching “comprehensive” sex education in the public schools.

It blasted “so-called ‘conscience clauses’ that allow providers and companies to cite religious reasons for refusing to provide contraception, abortion and sterilization.”

Parisi’s report – which revealed the feminist group was funded in part by George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and the Tides Foundation – criticized the Hyde Amendment, abstinence-based sex education classes, and crisis pregnancy centers that allegedly “mislead or harass women with false information about abortion.”

Parisi had an earlier stint as director of communications at the Ms. Foundation for four years, from August 1998 to January 2003. In between, she worked at the at the Children’s Health Fund, founded by liberal songwriter Paul Simon, an organization that also has ties to abortion advocacy.

Parisi had only been at her new post with the Girl Scouts of the USA for a few months when she ignited controversy over the Scouts seeming to honor her former employer. Just before Christmas, the Scouts retweeted a Huffington Post story that named Wendy Davis and Gloria Steinem among the “Incredible Ladies Who Should Be Women of the Year for 2013.”

Parisi defended the tweet, telling CNSNews.com, “Our Twitter bio states that a retweet does not equal an endorsement. Our sharing a link was not to endorse any of the women featured, but to highlight the source’s acknowledgment of women who made a mark in 2013.”

“As the world’s premiere leadership organization for girls, we are charged with developing girls of courage, confidence and character,” she said. “We hope that all girls have the courage to make the their voices heard and welcome respectful discourse about what qualities a woman of the year should have.”

Parisi’s own Twitter account, under the handle @bossladykp, is locked and can be read only with her permission.

However, the Scouts’ ties to Planned Parenthood and enthusiasm for Steinem precede Parisi’s tenure. A 2012 report on “healthy media” on the Girl Scouts’ website promotes the book and websiteMy Little Red Book, “a collection of short narratives written by women about their first period.” The reviewers wrote “we like it” because it features “[s]tories from women of different ages and backgrounds, including renowned authors and activists such as Gloria Steinem” and pro-abortion children’s book author Judy Blume. (In 2009, Blume wrote a fundraising e-mail asking donors to send money to Planned Parenthood in honor of Mother’s Day.)

Girl Scout CEO Kathy Clonginer told the Today Show in 2004 that the organization partners “with Planned Parenthood organizations across the country to bring information-based sex education programs to girls.” In 2012, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi describes the Girl Scouts’ relationship with Planned Parenthood as “very valuable.”

The group’s advocacy for LGBT causes has also undermined its wholesome image for many. In 2011, the group announced it would admit a seven-year-old biological boy as a Girl Scout, because he considers himself a transgender “girl.” In July, more than 90 Girl Scouts marched in San Francisco’s Gay Pride Parade for the first time ever.

The online news service Breitbart has noted the ravaging effects social liberalism has had on the organization. Girl Scout councils have reduced from 312 to 112, and the group has lost nearly one-third of its funding from 2007-2011. During that time, contributions dipped by a massive $44 million.

Read More: 

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/fmr.-spokeswoman-for-pro-abortion-foundation-now-works-for…the-girl-scout

Jahi McMath ‘improving,’ and ‘doing very well’ after receiving treatment, family says

“She is doing very well, and now getting the treatment she should have gotten 28 days ago,” family attorney Christopher Dolan said via Twitter. “Doctors are optimistic that her condition has stabilized.”

Jahi McMath underwent both surgeries at an undisclosed Catholic medical center after her family reached a legal settlement with Children’s Hospital allowing them to remove her from their facility.

Previously, they had begged the hospital to allow the procedures to be performed there, where Jahi had remained on a ventilator following her cardiac arrest on December 9, but the hospital refused, saying they would not allow medical procedures to be performed on a “deceased” patient.

California defines a loss of brain activity as legal death, but both Jahi’s family and Dr. Paul Byrne, who examined Jahi while she was at Children’s, said that despite the hospital’s insistence that Jahi was “brain dead,” her heart was beating on its own, her organs were functioning and she was responding with movements to family members.

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/jahi-mcmath-improving-and-doing-very-well-after-receiving-treatment-family